Welcome to mboxgrep home page

Abstract:

mboxgrep is a small utility that scans a mailbox for messages
matching a regular expression. Found messages can be either
displayed on standard output, counted, deleted, piped to a shell
command or written to another mailbox.

Features:

support for mbox (either plain or compressed), MH, nnmh, nnml and
maildir folders

ability of reading mbox folders and out from another mboxgrep
process from standard input

support for basic and extended POSIX regular expressions, and
optionally, Perl-complatible regular expressions (if linked with
the
PCRE
library)

ability of limiting the search to message body or headers
(although the whole message is scanned by default)

message counting

recursive search through directories

ability to invert the sense of matching

ability to write found messages to another mailbox

filtering duplicate messages

News:

August 30, 2003: Thanks to Vid Strpic, a Slackware package
is available.

August 24, 2003: mboxgrep 0.7.9 released

March 31, 2003: mboxgrep 0.7.8 released

March 17, 2003: Domain name MBOXGREP.ORG has been registered,
so from now on this site will be accessible via its permanent
URL, <http://www.mboxgrep.org/>.
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